Does more recreational marijuana mean more drug incidents in schools? Here's what we found out.

CLEVELAND — News 5 was in Michigan when some school leaders sounded the alarm about what legalizing pot does to students in October of 2023.

Now, one year after Ohio legalized recreational marijuana, we’re following through by asking various local school districts to let us know if the increased availability of cannabis products has meant more drug-related incidents in the past year. Plus, we got experts to weigh in on the effects of THC on young, developing minds.

Johnny Stack, at just 14 years old, started using marijuana.

“Johnny was a wonderful person,” said his mother, Laura Stack. “He was a normal, happy, funny young man… with a lot of friends.”

Stack told us it didn’t take long for marijuana to take its hold on her son. “That was just the beginning of five years of battling wh